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Opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who in 2016 announced a threat to the Russia's national security from the leader of Chechnya, announced his victory on September 10 at the elections to the council of members to the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow.

Alexander Lapshin’s pardoning has been long considered, but the decision was made after the blogger committed a suicide attempt, Ali Gasanov, an assistant to Aerbaijani president has stated today.

Today, the order of the President of Azerbaijan to pardon Alexander Lapshin has come into force.

Special operation near Vladikavkaz; mass rallies of North-Caucasians in support of Myanmar Muslims; major NATO exercises in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 4-10, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 10, the former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters broke through a border cordon to the territory of Ukraine. The police launched an investigation into the case of illegal crossing of the border.

During the week of September 4-10, 2017, nine persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, seven were killed and two others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The election commission for the Krasnodar Territory has reported on the absence of violations during the elections. Meanwhile, the Communists and independent observers have claimed stuffing of ballots and other violations at the polling stations.

Members of the association "People's Observer" have revealed a number of violations at polling stations in North Ossetia, Dmitry Reisikh, the initiator of the action, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Observers from the PARNAS and “Yabloko” Parties and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) have fixed a ballot throw-in at polling station No. 438, located in the Volgograd Youth Centre, Roman Zaitsev, the lawyer of the Volgograd Navalny’s office, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Alexander Tukaev, a candidate for the City Duma, who was today poured over with brilliant green at one of polling stations in Astrakhan, rejected hospitalization.

The whereabouts of Magomed Mamatov, a resident of Karabulak, who reported, on August 20, that he was shadowed on his way to Vladikavkaz and then disappeared, has not been established yet.

Members of precinct election commissions with a decisive vote were not admitted to work before the opening of four polling stations in Astrakhan, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) have stated.

Yulia Latynina, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" and the "Echo Moskvy", who criticized Russian authorities in connection with Boris Nemtsov’s murder and unacceptable preferences to the head of Chechnya granted by federal authorities, has explained her departure from Russia by the fear for her life and the lives of her parents.

After release of information about attempts of Azerbaijani ruling elite to bribe members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), its Monitoring Committee has called on the country to ensure a due balance of power branches, create conditions for the activities of the opposition and civil society institutions, and free unlawfully imprisoned persons.

Timur Makhauri, a native of Chechnya, killed by explosion of his car in Kiev, was known as Ramzan Kadyrov's personal enemy and, according to the Turkish Prosecutor's Office, was involved in the murder of Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev.

For the week of September 3-9, the Azerbaijani armed forces made more than 2500 shots at the positions at the Defence Army on the contact line. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic has upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Grozny to sentence Rizvan Ibragimov, a Chechen publicist, to 2.5 years of conditional imprisonment for inciting hatred and enmity. Relatives and friends of Rizvan Ibragimov treated the verdict as expected.

Unidentified persons have shelled the house of the father of Bekkhan Soltukiev, the leader of the "Malgobek" grouping, who was killed in a special operation in Psedakh, the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

Last night, a group of 150 residents of Chechnya, who committed their Hajj at the expense of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, flew to Grozny from Saudi Arabia, the republic's Muftiate reports.

The family of Magomed Abdusalamov, a boxer from Dagestan, accused officials and doctors of New York State of negligence and unprofessionalism. In the opinion of the family, if the fight had been stopped in time, Magomed’s grave injuries could have been avoided.